Sunday marked the four year anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law, and two prominent Florida lawmakers had very different takes on the occasion.
In a video released over the week end, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called the law a “disaster,” insisting it can still be repealed.
“We cannot give up on our efforts, not just to completely repeal ObamaCare, but to replace it with real market-based solutions that allow every single American to have the ability to buy affordable health insurance that meets their needs, and to buy it from any company in America that will sell it to them,” said Rubio. “We’re going to have a chance to achieve that soon. We cannot give up. ObamaCare is not something that’s set in stone. It can be repealed —and Americans increasingly want it to be repealed — and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz, D-Fla., quietly released a statement Saturday that said in part: “Four years ago Sunday, the enactment of the Affordable Care Act into law marked a major, historic milestone on the journey to build a more perfect Union.”
The Democratic National Committee chair claimed Obamacare has “already benefited millions of Americans,” and looked past the rising cost of healthcare to suggest it will continue to do so as “the cost curve bends even further.”
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress… Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."
James Madison
February 7, 1792
Ovomitcare will never be a viable soultion because it is not viable itself. It is all a big power play and it is all a bigger failure, just like Ovomit.
OBAMA CARE WILL NEVER BE ANY THING MORE THAN A DISASTER. OBAMA AND HIS DEMONCRATIC COHORTS HAVE DESTROYED THE BEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HAS EVER KNOWN. THE OBSCENE WASTE OR OUR TAXPAYER $$$$ THAT JUST SEEMS TO BE ENDLESS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF ANOTHER GOVERNMENT BOONDOGGLE. HE BROKE EVERY CAMPAIGN PROMISE HE MADE WHEN RUNNING FOR OFFICE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY. NO 5 DAY HEARING, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT VOTE, STRICTLY PARTISAN, AND TOTALLY UNREAD BY ANY CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR IN WASHINGTON, DEMONCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, AND THEY TELL US THIS IS THE LAW AND CANNOT BE REVERSED. UNDER OBAMA'S OWN PRE ELECTION CRITERIA IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN OUT OF COMMITTEE.
Oh you mean this is news, he has such a long track record of nothing but lies and video tape his credibility was LONG gone before he had two years in office. And all the scandals? They only confirm he has no clue as well as no answers. the communist/muslim terrorist needs to be in jail, we know that, his actions prove that then why isn't he UNDER the jail at Ft. Meade? He is a liberal democrap who is mentally ill. Doesn't Joe Biden and Harry Reid prove that!? To me it does. And the way the dems defend him at every turn mindlessly? There seems to be an entire PARTY that is clueless. Rooster Cogburn said it best. "Long on promise short on posse". In this case delivery which ovomit has no intention of doing on anything!